Adam is coming home, but not everyone seems eager to meet him. Joe rather goes fishing.

1,100 words, rated K

Summary:  Joe is struggling to forget San Quentin State Prison when one of his fellow prisoners shows up wounded on his doorstep.  

Rated: K (24,660 words)

The Prodigal Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary:  Even a good friend can become one of the “bad guys” when he lets himself get bedeviled.

Rated: T  Word Count: 2,500 

Summary:   Adam was put in charge of watching two-year-old Little Joe while Ben and Marie are in town, but there’s a problem. Where did he disappear to?

Word Count: 1,056  Rated: K

Summary: An idea I got off the episode ‘Love Me Not’.

Rating T (16,285 words)

A Place to Belong Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary:  Continuation to the story of Borderland, though possible to catch as a stand-alone, too. Here, Hoss lives the love and the marriage he has chosen. A love story, but also a story of something more. A romance written by a person not romantic at all. Contains some mature passages and difficult scenes, and old age character death.

PG-13 is for implications of intimate relationship, and story is recommended only for mature readers who can cope with mature writing.  Rated: T (47,785 words)

All characters, settings, and events are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot belong to me, the ones known from Bonanza belong to their rightful owners and creators.  

Rating T WC 1700

Summary: The final episode of the prequel series, It’s Just a Year. Adam has remained home for a year longer than he’d planned before heading for college. In that time, he’s been hazed, poisoned, almost killed and now we find him healthy and camping with Hoss for a final brother’s weekend before leaving for Boston. The idyllic time takes a ominous turn when Adam realizes that someone’s been watching their camp and must soon face his worst fears again and save his brother from the same fate. As with all theses stories, this can be read without reading the others first. This concluding episode brings the two oldest Cartwright boys together for some defining moments.  

Rated: K+  WC  17,000

It’s Only a Year Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary:  This WHN for A Journey Remembered looks at a “missing page” from the journal chronicling the journey West with Inger. After reading the story to Hoss while they waited for a horse to foal, Ben finds evidence of a page that was removed and remembers that it’s kept with personal papers. When he finally has a chance to do so, he rereads the missing page and recalls what he witnessed the night after Inger died.  

Rated: K+  WC  2600

Summary:   A Hoss story, of the desirable and desiring Hoss, the masculine Hoss some don’t see and others forget. Please note: description of passion, containing references to marital intimacy; sexual innuendo. For those who give space and respect to their imagination.  

Rated: T PG-13: mature situations, adult relationship. (1,775 words)

Summary:  A thought of how it would feel to marry in the Cartwright Clan; a short story of the eyes that see through more than their lenses.  

Rated: K+ (1,350 words)

A day at the lake with his brothers is shattered by gunfire, leaving Joe in God’s hands. Follow Joe’s muddled thoughts through his family’s struggle to keep him alive, and his own struggle to focus on where he belongs.

Rated: K+  (6,505 words)

Summary:  A WHN For My Brother’s Keeper

Rated:  K+   Word Count 9000

Summary:   After being injured, Joe questions his belief in trust and second chances.

Word Count:  968  Rated: K+

Summary: A old college rival of Adam’s takes competition to an extreme, playing chess with Cartwright lives. SJS, SAS, JAM, ESA, ESH…let’s just say lots of hurt, comfort, angst and mystery. I

Rated: T.  WC 29,000

Games Series, links to all the stories within the series included.